The Brain, Sensory Deprivation and Isolation
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You are about to witness a controversial experiment, One that delves deep into the human brain.
Six ordinary people will face total sensory deprivation, all in the name of science.
We live in a dangerous era were solitary confinement and sensory deprivation are sometimes used as punishment even as political tools.
Yet scientists just beginning to investigate the impact of total isolation on the mind.
Using the latest technology and a all to real simulation, scientists hope to answer a question as old as imprisonment itself.
What happen inside your brain when you are left truly ALONE?
I think this is more of torture than experiment. I believe that if you let go of your mind and just experience the stillness, or darkness or whatever you subject these people into, they can actually survive it in a positive way. To think, this is only 48 hrs, you sleep for 16 hrs, so you have 32 hrs left. There are so many activities or thoughts that you can do for that 32 hrs: music, dancing, drumming, reciting a poem, etc. etc. etc. then do it again the next day. Then the 32 hrs is over. And by the time it's over, you are better in all those activities, like better in drumming or dancing or have composed a song or poem.
Fascinating findings, I found the data result in percentage value helpful, and the lack of concrete results afterward with arguable subjective or ambiguous adjectives (i.e. badly, markedly,, etc.) disappointing. Overall, that felt less like journalism and more like "entertainment," though maybe those terms are common in findings so I digress, this is my subjective review... it has at least inspired me to research journals and studies to learn more about executive functioning results, suggestibility, and differences in men and women. Certainly a seemingly thorough and concise insight which I appreciate.
I did 48hr of sensory deprivation in Guatemala recently…total darkness, no human contact. 2 vegetarian meals a day. I intended to do a week. I came out early. it was numbing to not have something to experience. it was not emotionally damaging and I believe the difference between my experience and a prisoner in isolation is the degree of willingness, just as I believe the experience of not eating in starvation vs voluntary fasting is willingness.
who is the director of this documentary
People often do the same thing to their pet parrots when they leave them in their cage without changing out their toys, feeding them the same food and not spending the time they deserve.
Really sad.??
Your article has so many misspellings and other grammatical errors, I cannot believe a word you've typed. Nor do I put any trust whatsoever in your "documentary" as I now believe it is fake, staged. Learn to type. Too, not To. An, not a. Etc. Wow. So ignorantly written.
Isolation is only difficult to the mind.
There were mystics, hermits, and monks throughout history who spent years wandering the hillside and residing in caves who were completely alone, meditating and contemplating their true nature. If you identify with the restless mind, it's no surprise isolation will be difficult.
This is exactly what some ppl are doing to animals.
I feel like if i was in this experiment i would just sleep and imagine pleasant things.
It is very sad that in this day and age the militairy keeps pushing experiment of this nature under the desgise of science. The poeple facilitating these experiment should be ashamed of themselfs.
Audio gets way out of sync eventually, but good documentary nonetheless.
its bolex, in there sub conscious mind they know there going home safe/not going to be tortured, its completely different to forced isolation and depravation,so **** there subjects and the bbc!!!
I would have rather they focused a bit more on the people that DID manage to handle it and how they did it.
Fascinating documentary, though I would have liked to hear more details on how the deprivation of their senses changed their mental faculties.
The man innocently incarcerated in isolation shows the importance of having at least a humane way of punishing convicted people. What he had to endure is a form of torture, from which he will never recover. I hope he got some compensation for that.
I think those isolation effects become more pronounced through long term incarceration. This was two days, so I think they should be fine, no long term damage, a lot of people actually choose to do this for a week or so on buddhist type retreats, which consists of no speaking and minimal exposure to external stimuli and report the benefits of it.
There are looooooooooooooooooooots of lonely people that are isolating themselves in their houses for years and for that they lose all contact with reality and after years of isolation they will just realise that they got serious brain discorders. And what is the government doing???? NOTHING.
there should be a serious government organization that will help lonely people to meet other lonely people. Loneliness can kill this is not something to play
this is not a game. Loneliness decrease intelligence, work, and EVERYTHING.
Did anyone else wonder how they ate?
dam lefties and their end of the world rethoric
I'm interested to see how the subjects were psychologically a week, month and even six months after this experiment was completed, and whether their careers and hobbies changed.
Notably absent from the film was a control group.
Definately must be hard for people they lock up to deal with it for years. Especially Guantanamo Prisoners and others in worsening conditions of violence and deprivation routines becoming more and more accepted by societies in the west, "us" & "them" mentality. Make up a good enough reason to hate a people and we all start to look more like Hitlers people supporting a mad group of leaders,who only care for is $$ Curuption! We all live with that Human Deprivation everyday.
What happens ?...You go mad, that's what happens. Regardless of whether your a loner or just hate people, humans are social animals and total isolation and sensory depravation can turn you into a C-RAZZZYYYY BOY !
LOL @ guy singing
How did they not masturbate?
It would be nice if I could watch this in full screen. -___-
I'd like to respond to comment #12 (by dkhan).
Blind people still listen to tv, movies etc. we also generally use laptops for all of our notes in school from a very young age and continue using computers more than sighted people throughout our lives. We use screen reading programs that vocalize what is happening and learn to touch type just like anyone else would.
Blind people can do a lot more than we are generally given credit for. Just because someone closes their eyes and think "OMG I can't do anything" doesn't mean someone who has no vision can't. We learn to adapt or find technology to help us live life and do whatever we want to do.
The most irritating thing in life is when people just jump to conclusions because they assumed things instead of simply asking how something is done, so I am glad you asked instead of leaving a comment calling me a "liar" etc. like happens so often...